Mayaprayoga, Māyāprayoga, Maya-prayoga: 3 definitions

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Māyāprayoga (मायाप्रयोग).—

1) deceitfulness, employment of tricks or fraud; मायाप्रयोगः प्रिये (māyāprayogaḥ priye) Pañcatantra (Bombay) 1.19.

2) employment of magic.

Derivable forms: māyāprayogaḥ (मायाप्रयोगः).

Māyāprayoga is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms māyā and prayoga (प्रयोग).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Māyāprayoga (मायाप्रयोग).—m.

(-gaḥ) 1. Application of tricks. 2. Employment of magic.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1) Māyāprayoga (मायाप्रयोग):—[=māyā-prayoga] [from māyā > māya] m. the application or employment of magic, [Pañcatantra]

2) [v.s. ...] deceitfulness, [Apte’s The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary]

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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